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CV (as a pdf)

Sections

Education
Research Interests
Major Awards and Grants
Publications
Teaching Experience
Research Experience
Selected Presentations
Mentoring
Service
Additional Academic Training
Other Funding and Awards
Reviewer
Professional Memberships

Easton R. White
Research Associate
Department of Biology
Gund Institute for Environment
University of Vermont
63 Carrigan Drive, 358 Jeffords Hall, Burlington, VT 05405-0086 USA
Easton.White@uvm.edu | https://eastonwhite.github.io/

Education


2018 Ph.D. in Population Biology University of California, Davis
2013 B.S. in Biology, Minor Mathematics Arizona State University
2010 Associate of Science Scottsdale Community College

Research Interests


Quantitative ecology, coupled natural-human systems, ecosystem management, conservation science, marine ecology, fisheries, protected areas, decision theory, species monitoring, biology education, active learning

Major Awards and Grants


In review Easton R. White (PI), Olaf Jensen (co-PI), Victoria Ramenzoni (co-PI), and Sarah Smith (co-PI). Dynamics of socio-environmental systems in the face of shocks: coastal marine ecosystems and fishing communities. National Science Foundation: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES).
2020 PI: Effects of a human pandemic on fisheries. Gund Institute for Environment COVID-19 Rapid Research Fund ($7,100)
2019-2024 Merrill Baker-Medard (PI), Easton R. White (co-PI), and Elizabeth Fairchild (co-PI). Socio-Ecological Feedbacks of Marine Protected Areas: Dynamics of Small-Scale Fishing Communities and Inshore Marine Ecosystems. National Science Foundation: CNH2 Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems. $602,320
2018 Graduate Teaching Award, University of California, Davis
2017-2018 Professor for the Future fellow
2014-2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
2013-2014 Canada Fulbright Awardee

Publications


Google Scholar link ResearchGate link
*Indicates undergraduate or graduate student mentee, \(^\dagger\)Indicates equal co-authorship

In the pipeline (preprint and/or in review)

7 Emily Beasley\(^*\), Natalia Aristizabal\(^*\), Erika Bueno\(^*\), Easton R. White. The spore of the beans: Spatially explicit models predict coffee rust spread in fragmented landscapes. bioRxiv. PDF
6 Joshua S. Stoll, Hannah L. Harrison, Emily De Sousa, Debra Callaway, Melissa Collier, Kelly Harrell, Buck Jones, Jordyn Kastlunger, Emma Kramer, Steve Kurian, M. Alan Lovewell, Sonia Strobel, Tracy Sylvester, Brett Tolley, Andrea Tomlinson, Easton R. White, Talia Young and Philip A. Loring. Alternative seafood networks during COVID-19: Implications for resilience and sustainability. EcoEvoRxiv preprints. In review at Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. PDF
5 Christine A. Ward-Paige, Easton R. White, Elizabeth MP Madin, and 25 others. A framework for mapping and monitoring human-ocean interactions in near real-time during COVID-19 and beyond. OSF Preprints. In review at Marine Policy. PDF
4 Benjamin M. Althouse, Brendan Wallace, Brendan Case, Samuel V. Scarpino, Andrew M. Berdahl, Easton R. White, and Laurent Hebert-Dufresne. The unintended consequences of inconsistent pandemic control policies. medRxiv PDF
3 Christie A. Bahlai, Easton R. White, Julia D. Perrone, Sarah Cusser, and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. An algorithm for quantifying and characterizing misleading trajectories in ecological processes. bioRxiv. In review at Ecology. PDF
2 Osgood, Geoffrey, Easton R. White, and Julia K. Baum. Effects of climate-change driven gradual and acute temperature changes on shark and ray species. In revision at Journal of Animal Ecology.
1 White, Easton R., Kalle Parvinen, and Ulf Dieckmann. Environmental variability and phenology evolution: impacts of climate change and spring onset on reproductive timing in a small mammal. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27435v1. PDF

Published

18 White, Easton R., Marissa L. Baskett, and Alan Hastings. Catastrophes, connectivity, and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks. bioRxiv. Accepted at Oikos. PDF PDF Github
17 Froehlich Halley E., Rebecca Gentry, Sarah E. Lester, Richard S. Cottrell, Gavin Fay, Trevor A. Branch, Jessica A. Gephart, Easton R. White, and Julia K. Baum. Securing a sustainable future for US seafood in the wake of a global crisis. Accepted at Marine Policy. PDF PDF
16 White, Easton R., Halley Froehlich, Jessica A. Gephart, Richard S. Cottrell, Trevor Branch, Rahul Agrawal Bejarano, Julia Baum. 2020. Early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on US fisheries and seafood. Accepted at Fish and Fisheries.
  • In the top 1% Altmetric scores of all articles ever tracked
  • Picked up by over 200 news outlets
  • PDF PDF Github
    15 \(^\dagger\)Bruel, Rosalie and \(^\dagger\)Easton R. White. Sampling requirements and approaches to detect ecosystem shifts. bioRxiv. Accepted at Ecological Indicators. PDF PDF Github
    14 White, Easton R. and Christie A. Bahlai. 2020. Experimenting with the Past to Improve Environmental Monitoring Programs. Accepted at Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. PDF PDF
    13 White, Easton R. and Laurent Hebert-Dufresne. 2020. State-level variation for initial COVID-19 dynamics in the United States. In press at PLoSOne.
  • In the top 3% Altmetric scores of all articles ever tracked
  • Picked up by 8 news outlets
  • PDF PDF Github
    12 White, Easton R. and Alan Hastings. 2020. Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory. In press at Ecological Complexity.
  • In the top 3% Altmetric scores of all articles ever tracked
  • Picked up by 4 news outlets
  • PDF PDF
    11 White, Easton R.,*Kyle Cox, Brett Melbourne, and Alan Hastings. 2019. Ecological management depends strongly on stochasticity: an experimental test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PDF PDF Github
    10 Rodriguez-Caro, Roberto C., Thorsten Wiegand, Easton R. White, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Andres Gimenez, Eva Gracia, and Jose D. Anadon. 2019. A low cost approach to estimate demographic rates using inverse modelling. Biological Conservation. PDF PDF
    9 Fournier, Auriel, Easton R. White, and Stephen Heard. 2019. Site-selection bias can drive apparent population declines in long-term studies. Conservation Biology. PDF PDF Github
    8 White, Easton R. 2019. Minimum time required to detect population trends: the need for long-term monitoring programs. BioScience.
  • In the top 3% Altmetric scores of all articles ever tracked
  • Selected as Editor’s Choice Article and featured on BioScience Podcast
  • PDF PDF Github
    7 White, Easton R. and Andrew T. Smith. 2018. The role of spatial structure in the collapse of regional metapopulations. Ecology 99(2): 2815-2822. PDF PDF Github
    6 White, Easton R. Mark C. Myers, Joanna Mills Flemming, and Julia K. Baum. 2015. Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage at Cocos Island - an isolated marine protected area. Conservation Biology 29(4): 1186-1197.
  • In the top 3% Altmetric scores of all articles ever tracked
  • Referenced in FAO Policy documents
  • PDF PDF Github
    5 White, Easton R. John D. Nagy, and Samuel H. Gruber. 2014. Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks. Biology Direct 9(1): 1-23. PDF PDF Github
    4 Kessel S. T., Chapman D. D., Franks B. R., Gedamke T., Gruber S. H., Newman J. M., White E. R. and Perkins R. G. 2014. Predictable temperature regulated residency, movement and migration in a large, highly-mobile marine predator. Marine Ecology Progress Series 514. PDF PDF
    3 Robinson, James P.W., Easton R. White, Logan D. Wiwchar, Danielle C. Claar, Justin P. Suraci, Julia K. Baum. 2014. The limitations of diversity metrics in directing marine global marine conservation. Marine Policy 48:123-125. PDF PDF Github
    2 Gerber, Leah R. and Easton R. White. 2014. Two-sex matrix models in assessing population viability: when do male dynamics matter? Journal of Applied Ecology 51(1): 270-278. PDF PDF
    1 Senko, Jesse, Easton R. White, Sellina S. Heppell, and Leah R. Gerber. 2014. A comparison of fishery management strategies for mitigating bycatch of vulnerable marine megafauna species. Animal Conservation 17(1): 5-18. PDF PDF

    Teaching Experience


    University of Vermont
    2019-2020 Instructor, Foundations of Quantitative Reasoning (BIO381, PhD-level).
    University of California, Davis
    2017-2018 Instructor, Introductory Biology: Ecology and Evolution, Biology Undergraduate Scholars Program (Summer bridge program)
    2018 Instructor, Science Education and Outreach.
    2018 Instructor, Building your personal baloney detection kit, First Year Seminar program
    2016 Teaching Assistant, Population Ecology (ESP121)
    2015 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Biology (BIS2B)
    Software Carpentry
    2014-2019 Instructor for nine two-day workshops in North America (R, shell, and version control)
    University of Victoria
    2014 Teaching Assistant, Advanced Ecology (BIO470)

    Research Experience


    2019-2024 PI on coupled socio-ecological systems project focused on Madagascar coral reef fisheries
    2014-2018 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, Advisor: Alan Hastings
    2016 Intern, Young Scientist Summer Program, Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria
    2013-2014 Canada Fulbright Awardee, University of Victoria, Canada, Advisor: Julia Baum
    2012-2013 Researcher, Gerber Lab: Marine Population Biology, Arizona State University, Advisor: Leah Gerber
    2009-2013 Researcher, SCC/ASU Evolutionary Dynamics Laboratory, Advisor: John Nagy
    2011-2012 Intern, Bimini Biological Field Station, Bimini, Bahamas, Supervisor: Samuel Gruber

    Selected Presentations


    *Indicates undergraduate mentee

    2020 Shifting elasmobranch community assemblage within the Cocos Island marine protected area. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
    2019 Managing populations in a changing world. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
    2019 Ecology and conservation in an uncertain world. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
    2019 Site-selection bias and species monitoring programs. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
    2019 Experimenting with the past to improve species monitoring programs. CSEE Meeting, Fredericton, NB, Canada.
    2019 Teaching case study: Socio-ecological modeling of coral reef fisheries. National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD.
    2019 Interdisciplinary summer bridge programs to improve student outcomes. Biology Education Gordon Conference, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
    2019 Managing populations in a changing world. Biology Department Seminar Series, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
    2019 *Rappel, Charlotte and Easton R. White. Spatial dynamics and extinction risk of a small mammal population. University of California Undergraduate Research Conference.
    2019 *Kono, Erica, Schweibold, Reece, and Easton R. White. Sex-biased dispersal in a model invasive species. University of California Undergraduate Research Conference.
    2018 Designing marine protected areas for catastrophic events. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.
    2018 Minimum time required to detect populations trends. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
    2016 Metapopulation dynamics and extinction in the American pika. Mathematics of Planet Earth group, Society for Industrial and Applied Math, Philadelphia, PA.
    2016 Evolution of reproductive timing in variable environments. Young Scientist Summer Program. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria.
    2016 The inevitable partial collapse of an American pika metapopulation. Ecological Society of America. Baltimore, Maryland.

    Mentoring


    Middlebury College (in collaboration with Dr. Merrill Baker-Medard)
    Spring 2020 - Present Katherine Concannnon, Independent Research Project
    Spring 2020 - Present Valeriia Vakhitova, Independent Research Project
    Spring 2020 - Present Courtney Gantt, Independent Research Project
    University of Vermont
    Summer 2020 - Present Rose Pfeiffer, Contributed to research project
    Summer 2020 - Present Caroline Guilfoyle, Contributed to research project
    Fall 2019 - Summer 2020 Amanda Jones, Independent Research Project
    University of California, Davis
    Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 Erica Kono, Independent Research Project
    Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 Reece Schweibold, Independent Research Project
    Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 Charlotte Rappel, Independent Research Project
    Spring 2018 - Summer 2018 Ivan Beas, Honors Thesis
    Spring 2017 - Summer 2018 Kyle Cox, Contributed to research project and publication
    Winter 2016 - Summer 2016 Jeni Boyer, Independent Research Project
    Winter 2016 - Summer 2016 Annie Maliguine, Independent Research Project
    University of Victoria
    Fall 2013 - Winter 2014 Mitra Nikoo, Contributed to research project
    Winter 2014 Jessica Holden, Contributed to research project
    Winter 2014 Michael Sullivan, Contributed to research project
    Scottsdale Community College
    Spring 2012 - Spring 2013 Andrew Nemecek, Independent Research Project
    Spring 2012 - Spring 2013 Sabrina Jones, Independent Research Project

    Service


    2018- Leadership Team, National Science Foundation PhD traineeship, University of Vermont
    2018- Instructor, computational skills workshops, Software Carpentry
    2019 Organizer, Research Derby Event, University of Vermont
    2016-2018 Founder, Population Biology Diversity Committee, University of California, Davis
    2017-2018 Instructor, Skype a Scientist program, University of California, Davis
    2015 Volunteer tutor, STEM Cafe , University of California, Davis
    2012-2014 Cofounder and educator, Mathematics without Boundaries, Arizona State University

    Additional Academic Training


    2020 Teaching Effectively Online Course, University of Vermont
    2017-2018 Professors for the Future Program, University of California, Davis
    2018 University Ethics and Professionalism
    2017 Seminar on College Teaching
    2017 Center for Educational Excellence Workshop Series
    2015-2018 Graduate Teaching Community Workshop Series
    2014 Software Carpentry Instructor Course
    2014 Mathematics Teaching Workshop, University of Victoria

    Other Funding and Awards


    2014-2019 Various Software Carpentry travel awards
    2019 Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution honorarium ($1,200)
    2018 UC Davis Graduate Teaching Award ($500)
    2018 UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Grant ($1,000)
    2016 SIAM Travel Grant ($650)
    2016 Population Biology Research Grant ($1,666)
    2016 National Academy of Science Travel Grant ($4,400)
    2015 Mathematical Biosciences Institute traval grant ($750)
    2014 NSF Travel Award ($1,700)

    Reviewer


    Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Biological Conservation, Communications Biology, Conservation Biology, Ecography, Ecological Complexity, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal of Applied Ecology, PeerJ, PLoSONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NOAA Grant Review, Science, Theoretical Ecology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution

    Professional Memberships


    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)
    Ecological Society of America (ESA)
    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
    Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
    Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)